I’m not a tankie/communist/socialist. In fact at this point, I’m afraid to ask for clarification.
Between my wife and I, we make pretty solid money. We own our home, we don’t live paycheck to paycheck, have good health insurance, and have solid retirement accounts.
I would not complain at all, if that shit burned to the ground omif it meant an end to this bullshit system in place today.
My wife and I also grew up poor as shit. My single Mom fed us with food stamps and government cheese.
I’ll gladly live that life again if it meant no more dragon hoarding billionaires using their money to dictate politics.
This is going to be a deep dive, I appreciate the info!
No probs! @[email protected] also has some great introductory resources.
These videos talk about socialism
I love the sources everyone is throwing at me. This is great, thank you!
She’s 100% right of course
But then I read a story like today that approval for mass deportation is 50% AMONG HISPANICS
65% among saltine Americans
So like yeah the billionaires are the problem but look at my proletariat dawg
Do you have the source on this?
https://www.newsweek.com/hispanic-support-deportations-rises-sharply-ice-raids-donald-trump-2097163
Read it and weep
There’s no hope for this country truly, someone on hexbear put it best they need to be educated before they can be reeducated
Yes.
The pressure is mounting. The overt harm that the billionaires do merely by their existence - merely by holding wealth that could instead have served to keep the poorest people sheltered and fed - becomes more obvious with every passing day and every newly unhoused and unfed American.
But, psychopaths that they necessarily are, the billionaires are unwilling to give up any of their wealth, and in fact are instead looking for any opportunity to increase it. Always.
So, to them, the solution is simple - we need to kill as many poor people as possible, so they won’t be around being poor and making billionaires look bad.
And to all too many of them, that much the better if most of the dead are minorities.
They’re hardly both the same.
The purpose of a machine is what it does. Whenever Dems have a majority all they do is stall or endlessly dilute their bills until what was originally supposed to be a meal program or closing a loophole for insurance to scam people or whatever, has to include millions for cops or the DEA or an aid package for Israel. Real convenient how they’re allowed to be real loud and progressive only when they’re guaranteed to lose the vote.
The system remains functionally the same. It matters very little who has the majority, whatever the government ends up doing is usually what is popular with billionaires.
The last time Democrats had the same majority in congress that Republicans have now was the 111th Congress. It was considered the most productive Congress since the 89th, which was also a Democratic majority.
The slim majorities that Democrats have had since have been packed full of centrists due to the horrifically low congressional primary attendance (<15%) for the last few decades. We need to stop allowing retirees to fill our ballots with conservatives and centrists, and vote in the progressives that will actively bring about change.
Productive for whom? Having an assload of dem bills isn’t progress in and of itself. What did that congress pass that made life meaningfully better for everyone? They could have passed single payer healthcare, didn’t. They could have passed medicare for all, didn’t. They could have raised the federal minimum wage, didn’t. Could have codified Roe v. Wade, fucking didn’t.
First they filled the Obama cabinet with citibank execs right as it became clear that bankers had caused the economic equivalent of a manmade famine for a quick buck. Then, when it was time to pass the bills that got them elected they dragged their feet and watered down the bills as soon as they had the flimsiest excuse. I won’t call it “compromising” because if they absolutely wanted to put their foot down and pass all that shit, they could have. We’ve seen ample proof. Their sponsors wouldn’t stand for it and that’s who calls the shots in Washington.
Did you read the link? No.
They raised minimum wage before they did anything else. They also enacted equal pay laws and several insurance protections. Read it and come back with informed criticism. This uninformed “democrats bad” nonsense is not worthy of debate.
Different masks, different stage personas, same masters
Says the person paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter.
They’re not wrong, but they are actively contributing to what they are complaining about
Fuck purity. Be a hypocrite. Buy sharpies and poster board from Amazon and then go protest Jeff Bezos’ next dick rocket. Do what it takes to get your message out there.
Don’t put yourself at a disadvantage just to keep your halo. There are plenty of people out there being ideologically consistent. You never hear about them, because that gets you nowhere.
This is kind of where I’m at. I could buy a US made shotgun for 2-3x a foreign one, or I could buy the foreign one which is just as effective against billionaires and use the saved money to help my community more.
I get what you’re saying and I agree. The problem I have here is that the source of message in the image is only available in one walled off garden, run by a billionaire Nazi. The blue check advertises that platform and even though this is not a direct link it does direct traffic there.
You don’t advertise where you bought your sharpies and poster board from when you make your sign for the protest.
Don’t put yourself at a disadvantage just to keep your halo.
By that logic though, one could just as easily say that she should simply run under a bigger party’s ticket that is likelier to win elections.
Nobody’s perfect, but this is one of those things that is both easy to do and has a correct answer, like returning shopping carts. Twitter is a Nazi bar, no sane person should use it, and the only thing her presence is doing over there is giving the Nazis a more visible boogeyman to rally against. I’d honestly believe more of her supporters are here on Lemmy than over there.
she should simply run under a bigger party’s ticket
So like Bernie tried to do?
I’m more partial to the “by any means necessary” approach. The current liberal/social democratic parties aren’t in it to win it.
I believe it’s going to take a force that is willing to use all its political and economic advantages to leverage history in favor of progress.
She’s been a presidential candidate.
